Improvement in washing-machines



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Pahanted March 2, I875 rr v INVENTOR A. Ga HUEY. Washing-Machine.

IT ESSS UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

ALEXANDER G. HUEY, OF GARNETT, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,435, dated March 2, 1875; application filed October 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER G. HUEY, of Garnett, in the county of Anderson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a longitudinal vertical section of my washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

This invention has relation to washing-machines wherein a reciprocating heater is employed, which is actuated by jointed arms.

Prior to my invention machines of this class were actuated by taking hold of the lever-arms to which the rubber is connected, and the movements were necessarily irregular and jerking.

The nature of my invention consists in a novel means of using a crank and a spring for actuating the beater, whereby the labor of working the machine is greatly reduced, and the dead-points overcome, as will be here inafter explained.

In the annexed drawing, A designates a rectangular box, the sides of which are extended at one end to afford bearings for a crank-shaft, B, on one end of which is a crankhandle, B. O designates a beater, which is movable on curved and inclined ways a a, up to and from an inclined plane, b.

By these means the fabrics are rotated as well as beaten, and new surfaces are presented to the beater at each forward stroke thereof.

D D are two arms, which are rigidly secured to the ends of the heaters O, and pivoted to a rod, 0, which connects together the free ends of two levers, E E, working outside of the box A. The levers E E are vibrated by means of the crank on shaft B, to which they are connected by means of a rod, F, and a cross-rod, c. The rod 0, connecting together the free ends of the levers E, passes through a long slot, in which a helical spring, 9, is applied. This spring gis between the rod 0 and the upper end of its slot, so that when the beater O is forcibly brought against 'the fabrics the spring 9 will yield, and then immediately recoil, thereby starting the crank B past the deadcenter at the commencement of the return stroke of the beater. The same action takes place at the commencement of each forward stroke of the beater.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv In combination with the heaters G, pivoted beater-arms D, levers E, crank B, and rods F c, the spring g, applied to rod F, as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above 1 have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER G. HUEY.

\Vitnesses L. K. KIRK, JOHN MORRISON. 

